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- noun biology An
ecosystem based onparasitism
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Using this pathosystem, a C. elegans-C. albicans "curing" assay was developed using liquid media in standard 96-well plates which allowed simultaneous assessment of both the compound's antifungal activity and the compound's cellular toxicity.
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In addition to economical importance, rice blast is a model pathosystem to study fungal-plant interactions because this system has extensive genome resources available for both the fungus and rice. "
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